Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
Nativ is a new open-source desktop application that allows users to run frontier AI models locally on Apple Silicon hardware. The tool emphasizes privacy and performance by bypassing cloud-based subscriptions and data harvesting.
Why it matters
It represents a growing trend in the developer community toward local, private AI execution to avoid the privacy and cost constraints of proprietary cloud services.
Nativ puts frontier intelligence on your desk. Download and run open models on Apple Silicon — no accounts, no subscriptions, no cloud.
WE ARE 100% OPEN SOURCE · MIT LICENSED · ✦ Nativ, running on macOS Real app. Real local models. No cloud. Chat Analytics Models Integrations 01 / CHAT Talk to open models with streaming responses and per-message performance metrics.
Run standout open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI. Nativ recommends the right partner model for your hardware.
A clean interface with streaming, markdown, code highlighting, and image input. Every response is generated locally.
Live tokens/sec, memory pressure, thermal state, and time-to-first-token. The details developers want.
Built on MLX-VLM and tuned for M-series unified memory and Metal — no wrappers, no translation layers.
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